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Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Soda Pop

One of the parlor tricks my college linguistics teacher liked to use was to ask people what they called a carbonated beverage. The answers would inevitably show sharp geographic distinctions between "soda," "pop," and "Coke."

Side note: Isn't it amazing what kind of power the Coca-Cola brand has? There aren't any regions where people use "Pepsi" as a generic term for carbonated beverages, let alone RC Cola.